elegiac

Example Sentences

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Throughout this show, artists of all nationalities celebrate their homelands’ traditions and cultures, though there is a slightly elegiac air to these odes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Character actor Noah Segan’s directorial debut, the movie is a warmly elegiac portrait of the city and the pain of recognizing when your time has passed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

The film, made in collaboration with his King's Foundation charity, is a sometimes elegiac look at his many decades of campaigning to protect the natural world.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

“Beloved Renegade” is as elegiac a gathering as “Speaking in Tongues” is a chilling one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The correspondence lost its argumentative edge and shifted back to an elegiac, still-life pattern after 1820.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis